| Function |
Program Name |
Why I Use it |
Other Options |
Where to get it |
| browser |
Netscape Navigator Gold |
- Personal preference - prefer it over Microsoft's Internet Explorer
(the feel of the program, the way it handles downloads, the helper applications)
- Has a homepage editor built in (the Gold version) which makes it easy
to create and edit documents
- Can be downloaded for free for people involved in an education institution
- Widely used and accepted
- Has a browser to look at newsgroups
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- Microsoft's Internet Explorer
- Mosaic
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| Program to Handle Zip files |
Win Zip |
- Many programs available on the internet are only available in zip format
(this means they have been compressed to make them smaller when you try
to download)
- zip files end in .zip and cannot be used until they are expanded with
a program like Win Zip
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WinZip: Download Page
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| telnet program |
SimpTerm |
- Free Telnet program
- Let's you connect to your student account from your home computer
|
NCSA's Telnet Program |
The SimpTerm Home Page |
| ftp program |
Cute FTP |
- Shareware program but I think there may be some beta programs out there
that do not expire
- Stores the sites that you typically go to along with passwords
- Lets you manipulate the files on your student account without having
to use Unix commands
- Automatically handles the transfer of binary and text files
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For the Mac Fetch is a Useful program |
Cute FTP for Windows
95
Aaron Masters' Winsock
Warehouse - Mac - File Transfer Apps
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| E-mail Program |
Eudora |
- One of the best e-mail programs
- You can set up the program up to constantly check your mail when you
are on-line and have it running in the background while you do other things
- Allows you to sort mail
- Allows you to save mail in different folders
- Allows you to have different signature files
- Makes it really easy to do attachments (100 times easier than in Pine)
- Has a built in ftp program when you use the publish button
- Allows you to upload all the files in a directory at one time (graphics
along with html pages)
- Nice address book
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- There is an e-mail program with Netscape Navigator Gold
- There is an e-mail program with Office 97 that is nice because you
can use the Microsoft Word as your text editor
- There is an e-mail program on Windows 95
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- You can get this from the computer site at DCL (U of I students can
get the full version). You'll need your id card and two disks
- Download the light version that has fewer features at QUALCOMM
Homepage
- The program is available at CCSO sites but the downside is that
you can not save the e-mail messages
|
| HTML editor - WYSIWYG (like a word processor where you don't need
to do any coding) |
Netscape Navigator Gold |
- I usually start many of my documents in this type of editor & do
more advanced stuff in a text editor
- you can have your own set of pages on your computer, create links between
pages that you have created, and then upload them to your student account
- easy to add graphics, change colors, change size of text, add links
by dragging the site to your page rather than typing link info, etc.
- Free
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- Download from Netscape
- Many of the CCSO sites have these alternate editors including Navigator
Gold
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| HTML editor - text editor |
Arachnophilia |
- WYSIWYG editors can't do everything - you have more control with a
text editor
- Free
- Can handle tables and frames
- Will convert tables saved in Word in rich text format to an html version
(not always perfect but saves a lot of time)
- Will convert a document from Word in rich text format to an html version
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Arachnophilia Home
Page
Hot Dog Editor - Sausage Software
Home Page- (32 bit version there is a charge to use the program)
Hot Metal Editor - SoftQuad (Standard
version free but fewer features than the pro version)
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| Image Map Generator (those pictures that you can click on to navigate
a site) |
Map This |
- Free program that will create image maps
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| Animated Gif Creator |
Gif Construction Kit |
- Creates simple animated graphics
- Free
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Microsoft
GIF Animator
GIF
Builder for Mac
|
| Sound Plug in for Netscape |
Real Audio |
- Allows you to hear audio on the internet
- You don't have to download an entire audio clip but it will steam the
audio
- A lot quicker
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Can be downloaded from Download
RealPlayer and some sites that use real audio can be found at |
| Add ons to Microsoft Programs |
Internet Assistant for Word, Powerpoint, Excel |
- Various Add ons to programs that will allow you to for example put
a powerpoint presentation on the web
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Microsoft
Products Menu |
| Add on to Netscape for Quick Time Video |
Quicktime |
- Let's you download movies in the quick time format and view them on
your computer
- Have Versions for Windows and Mac environments
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Apple QuickTime Home |
| Manipulate Graphics |
Photoshop |
- Lets you convert a scanned graphic into a gif or jpeg file format
- You can create your own graphics
- You can manipulate the color, texture, etc of a picture or graphic
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Paint Shop Pro is a reltively inexpensive program to buy for your own
computer and can some things that Photoshop can (you still will need to
scan the pictures in at a CCSO site unless you own a scanner) |
Photoshop is Available at many CCSO sites
Paintshop -Welcome to Jasc, Inc.
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